Resolving template into a string

[Roberto Trunfio]

This question is similar to the post "Ajax call - Spring Integration".

Background. I'm using the following dependency:

<dependency>
 <groupId>com.mitchellbosecke</groupId>
 <artifactId>pebble-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
 <version>2.2.1</version>
</dependency>

In a REST controller, I'd like to return an object that includes also a rendered template in the form of a string. I come from a Freemarker experience, where you have an utility class that has a method meant to translate a template into a string.

FreeMarkerTemplateUtils.processTemplateIntoString()

I'm wondering how to do the same in Pebble. Any example?

[Roberto Trunfio]

Ah ok, it was easy:

@Autowired
private PebbleEngine pebbleEngine;


@RequestMapping(value = "/ajax/something/")
public @ResponseBody Object myController(){

 final PebbleTemplate template = pebbleEngine.getTemplate("my_template");
 final Writer writer = new StringWriter();
 template.evaluate(writer, new HashMap<String, Object>());

 String renderedTemplate = writer.toString();
 return new MyObject(renderedTemplate);
}

Is there any utility class that encapsulates this?